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2 Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America 1794

handle is hein.beal/cgusa0002 and id is 1 raw text is: DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNI'ED STACFES OF AMERICA, AGAINST TILE ATTACK OF M. TURGOT IN HIS LETTER TO DR. PRICE, IATED THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF MAVCH, 1778. By JOHN ADAMS, LL. D. AND A MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AT BOSTON. As for us Englifhmnen, thank Heaven, we have a bexter fere-of governmentt dclivered to us from our aneeflors. We havec the aipNirn -qf IL pu31c, and a conlffitution; how a legiflative, and how I 6.ce-4utive is moulded. We un- derltand weight and ineaftire in this kind and can tiefon jtiflty on the ba- lance of power and property. The mnlms wedraw from hence are as evi- dent as thofe of mathematics. Our lacreafing krow'lecte ihtys us every day more and more what common fenfe is in politics. SHAFTES-&L.AS Charan. vol. i, p. To8. 'Tis fcarce a quarter of an age fince fuch a :iappy balanee- power was fettled between our prince and pcople, a,. has firmly fecured-trhi~herto precarious lihcrtes, and removed from u, thi fca; of civil cosssnlotlous, wars, azd vio- lence, either on account of the property of the fubjeft, or the contending titles of tile crown. V O L. II. ,4 IV E IV EDrTION. LONDON: PLflNTED FOI JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCAD.LLY. 179+

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